Hello Parents and Students-
The weather is changing, our time will be changing in the next few weeks and we are now moving into learning about the 13 Colonies of the United States. There are many fun activities we will do as a class, starting with our "Colonial School". This gives the students a taste of what is was like to go to school in Colonial Times. We will conclude our unit on American Colonies with our "Colonial Days" on Tuesday November 20th. We will be celebrating with pie on Tuesday afternoon, and thank our Room Mom for helping us out with this.  We look forward to these activities, it is a terrific way to end our colonial unit and start the American Revolution.

We are having our Math Unit 3 Test this Wednesday and our Benchmark 1 Test on Monday November 19th . This is a test on all of the things we have learned about so far in 5th grade. We are sending home a practice test on Monday.  Please spend some time with your student and make sure they understand how to work out the problems.  We will spend time reviewing in class as well.  We are finding that the concepts in 5th grade are not too difficult for the students, however we are finding some of them are struggling with their times tables. Please encourage your student to practice their times tables each night, even if only for 5 minutes. You can even do this as you are driving around.

We enjoyed meeting with all of you at Parent Teacher Conferences.  If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to call, email or come by our class.

Thanks~